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Show THE ALTA VICTIMS. From Salt Lake Herald It was a mourulul procession that reached Sandy yesterday. The bodies o the two men who had been killed in the slide were fastened to rude sledges and dragged to Wasatch a distance of eight m.Ies at which point the railway was ta .en for Scndy. There were thirteen men in the party which had been sent out for supplies, and of this number five were burried in the slide. Two men, HansOlsn and Barney Kast, were kill d outright, while lohn Ford and Hous-man Hous-man and Henry Weight were injured. The bodies and the injured men reached reach-ed this city last evening,. Ford and Housman were at once taken to the hospital; while Weight was left at his home. Ford will be remembered as one of the men who was caught in th great slide of 1885, at which time he lost his wrfe and child. The extent of his injur ies have not been ascertained, and it is feared they are almost eternal, and quite serious. Housman was seriously bruis-,ed bruis-,ed about the hip. Weight's injuries are not at all serious.and he will be around in a day or two. |